Rome is threatening to give Schengen visas to migrants allowing them to travel beyond Italy if an equitable deal is not to relocate migrants landing in Europe's frontline states across the bloc.
As the feud about how the different countries should deal with the migrant crisis grows, Brussels...

Migrants from Africa and the Middle-East are opting to trek through the Balkans with the use of GPS in order to avoid both traffickers and the perilous Mediterranean passage.
However whilst GPS navigation has helped many migrants forego the use of traffickers; it is unlikely that smugglers...

The Irish naval vessel LÉ Eithne rescued 460 migrants over two operations off the coast of Libya on Monday.
The first operation lasted nearly three hours and saved 278 men, 80 women and 9 children. The second saved another 100 migrants in the same area. Once on board LÉ...

Multiple sources confirms the suspicion that cash payments have been made to members of Indonesian people-smuggling rings by Australian intelligence officials for at least the past four years - including under the former Labor government, and that such payments have been part of successive governments' tactics, according to FairFax...

A group of 18 migrants were found dead near the town of Arlit, in the Niger part of the Sahara Desert. The 17 men and one woman died of dehydration; after becoming lost while driving through a sandstorm and running out of fuel, the International Ogranization...

Migrants in Calais were caught breaking into a lorry on its way to Dover; the incident was caught on film by New Zealand tourist Jenny NZ.
The film depicts some 20 migrants opening the back of a lorry and then trying to squeeze into the back. While this...

Humanitarian agencies are calling on the international community to support a lasting solution that could save the lives of millions of civilians in Yemen, as the UN prepares to host peace talks on Sunday June 14th in Geneva.
[caption id="attachment_929" align="aligncenter" width="561"] A Family arriving the port...

The European Commission is urging EU governments to send back migrants who cannot claim asylum, in hope that it convinces reluctant countries to receive new refugees.
The European Commissioner in charge of migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, wrote to EU ministers to call for the EU's so-called return...

French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve fired back at Italian Primie Minister Matteo Renzi, for threatening to "hurt Europe" with a Plan B on migration should the EU not offer solidarity on migration.
[caption id="attachment_877" align="aligncenter" width="819"] Bernard Cazeneuve, French Interior Minister[/caption]
Italy must abide by the European Asylum Rules, Cazeneuve said,...

Today, June 15th and tomorrow (June 16th, 2015), in Luxembourg, Justice and Home Affairs Council will meet in the European Convention Centre (KIRCHBERG building). This 3396th meeting will be chaired by Dzintars Rasnačs, Latvian Minister for Justice and by Rihards Kozlovkis, Latvian Minister for the...